The Old Man's War Series - Book 4
Zoe's Tale
“A companion to last year’s The Last Colony, this fast-paced volume tells the story of the colony planet Roanoke from the perspective of Zoe Boutin Perry, a perceptive and intelligent seventeen-year-old. Zoe’s voice is original and believable, and her take on the events is both entertaining and enlightening.”
RT Book Reviews (4½ stars, Top Pick!)
Finalist for the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the 2009 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel
Nominated for Hugo Award - Nominee, 2009
Nominated for Locus Awards - Nominee, 2009
Nominated for Hugo Award - Nominee, 2009
Nominated for Locus Awards - Nominee, 2009
Nominated for Hugo Award - Nominee, 2009
Nominated for Locus Awards - Nominee, 2009
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.
Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did - how I did what I had to do - not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.
It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.
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